Smoothie For One

Due to all of the chaos associated with packing and unpacking, not much happened on the food or fitness side this weekend, but I had anticipated that that might be the case. Two days off in a row was good for my body, and I’m sure it did much more good than harm.

Meals were either eaten mostly in the car or in my disaster-zone room, and I didn’t really have the wear withal to snap photos (I was too busy learning how to put a bed frame together).

So! This morning I thought I’d try out my new Oster MyBlend blender, that I bought the other day at Walmart.

I had limited ingredients, but I was still able to make a pretty tasty chocolate banana smoothie, using the following ingredients:

1 banana

1 scoop VegaChocolate protein powder (this stuff is so good mixed with milk/Almond milk for protein shakes- and I don’t even like protein shakes)

I ate a couple spoonfuls of this stuff right out of the bag, and was pleasantly surprised by its sweet taste. Then I saw “organic evaporated cane syrup” on the ingredients list. Ah, that explains it.

I finished off the last of the PB2 and need to order some more because it is so versatile for breakfast foods, and I love its flavour in yogurt and smoothies.

It was a very powder-heavy smoothie, but fortunately, this doesn’t matter too much with smoothies.

This was my first time adding oats to a smoothie, and I really liked how they thickened the drink.

But let’s be honest, do I ever turn down oats?

The verdict on the blender?

Awesome!!!!!

It’s no Vitamix, but it did the job for me, and I can’t wait to get creative with other ingredients. I’m just hoping the Oster will be able to blend frozen bananas, because I could eat those all. day. long.

Time to run off to a meeting now, but I’m hoping to get in an outdoor workout today, and possibly yoga. Time to see if my sitting cross-legged ability has improved at all!

Comments

That’s such a cool little machine. My roommate has the Vitamix which is my new best friend, but it’s so hard not to make enough smoothie to feed a small army. I always end up with extra. Also, so jealous you get PB2 in the states. I’ve been trying to find it in Canada but no luck so far.